This little meditation on death and insight is inspired by Laurie Anderson’s song, ‘Everything is Floating’. The song and the audio together make a 10 minute reflection that you can add to your daily meditation, or listen to on a walk or commute.

Empathy can be a healing emotion, it consoles us at times of grief or difficulty. Kisa Gotami and Käthe Kollwitz are both consoled by knowing that they are not alone in the loss of their children, not alone in their suffering.

As a Buddhist part of my practice is to reflect on death. At times death has been quite close. At other times we can go whole days, even whole weeks without thinking of death.But we must.Dharma art mission 03 is to make a 'memento mori'